Saturday marks the 1 year anniversary of KONA Radio. KONA Radio came to life after the premature demise of East End Radio at the hands of an infamous loser* . Unburdened of its yoke KONA spread to many sims across SL starting of course at Hukilau island and further branching out to places like Fishers Island & Grand Harbor. One thing I’ve neglected to do was set up a website. It was after I began to broadcast Crap Mariner’s 100 Word Stories that Crap gave a little push to do it by suggesting I really aught to have a neat URL to toss out there for the crowds. So here you go! Click the picture to go to my site.

On the front page are links to launch the music, visit my sponsors, a chat widget to talk to me if I am online and a now playing list. There are also pages for a calendar, station blog, paypal donations, and a meebo chat room.

SAILORS COVE WEBSITE

Speaking of new websites, Sailors Cove’s web presence has grown from a couple of blogs and groups to a website that ties them together. Please also visit their site http://www.slsailorscove.com/ to see how they combined all their elements together to form a useful and informative website highlighting the best of SC. To quote the site :

“…the most dynamic and beautiful sims in Second Life. Fifteen sims of low-lag sailing, living and where, for us, Sailing Comes First!
We are owned by sailors, we are managed by sailors, we have genuine concern for sailing – “The best place to sail and live in SL”.”

Having been a “black” avatar for about 11 months I had never experienced overt racism or comments that could be deemed insensitive, until tonight. Considering the events leading up to what was said the comments were not racist but something stupid and poorly chosen. I was with a friend at a club and remarked on a female skin I had seen earlier at a Mardi Gras event. The shading on the backside was a bit intense and suggested something “nasty”. We had our little chuckle about my observation and the conversation moved on. We then discussed how my friend had found an SL “twin” and that conversely my avatar was fairly unique:

[18:49] Friend: i dont know who the heck she was
[18:49] Friend: but it was kind of uncanny
[18:50] You: Never seen anyone come close to me 🙂
[18:50] Friend: no go
[18:50] Friend: you are an original
[18:50] Some guy: that’s cuz they won’t go near that butt streak skin

At that point I was pissed and angry. It looked like he compared my skin tone to a filthy backside. The anger passed quickly and the words just made me sick. OK, I’m sure he didn’t mean it in a crude, rascist way but on face value it sure felt that way. I could well imagine how a black person could feel slighted by that kind of comment. One would think in this day and age people would be more careful about the words they choose. One thing I’ve learned in my 40 plus years is that once words are spoken you can never take them back, so please, choose them carefully.

As announced by Zoe Connolly the next SL Blogger meeting will be held at Sailors Cove on the 24th of February from 1pm to 4pm SLT. Hosting will be myself, Ravishal Bentham and GoSpeed Racer. Tunes will of course come courtesy of KONA Radio and one of the activities we plan on is a Grand Sail around the 15 sims of the Sailors Cove estate. If you don’t have a sailboat you can easily hitch a ride with somebody else.